Month: July 2020

It was previously reported that WWE recently announced that they are changing the name of the first-ever Fabulous Moolah Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 34 due to numerous fan backlash over Moolah’s controversial past. The match will now be called The WrestleMania Women’s Battle Royal. The WWE website has also updated the match listing to…

WWE announced earlier this week that another Superstar Shakeup will take place during Raw and Smackdown next week, which means that several stars currently on the Raw and Smackdown rosters may be moving to different shows. Of course, the topic of possible NXT call ups has been speculated on by fans, but an interesting name…

1939 Albany, New York: – Ed Don George defeated Steve Casey for the Boston AWA World Heavyweight Title  1958 Atlanta, Georgia: – Karl Heinkler and Kurt Von Brauner defeated Don Lee and The Mighty Yankee to win the Georgia NWA International Tag Team Titles 1962  Mobile, Alabama: – Tex Riley and Gus Taylor won the…

Click:PLC Splitter Following her appearance at WrestleMania, Bianca Belair’s call-up to Raw was officially confirmed tonight. Belair again appeared after The Street Profits defended their Raw Tag Team titles against Angel Garza & Austin Theory. Tonight’s match ended in a disqualification when Zelina Vega interfered and grabbed Montez Ford’s leg as he was going for…

By Brian Hoops   1905 – Tom Jenkins defeated Frank Gotch in New York City, New York towin the American Heavyweight Title 1951 – Roy Shire defeated Jackie Nichols in Columbus, Ohio for theMidwest Wrestling Association World Junior Heavyweight Title. 1956 – Whipper Billy Watson defeated Lou Thesz by countout to win theNWA World Heavyweight Title in…

By Ryan Frederick for WrestlingObserver.com In a time when the fight world is focused on May 2 and the years-in-the-making showdown that will finally happen in boxing when Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquaio do battle at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the UFC is doing their own version of building up their biggest battle…

by David Bixenspan | [email protected] | Follow @davidbix If you haven’t seen last year’s UFC 175 pay-per-view, Fox Sports 1 is rerunning it tonight in prime time at 8 p.m. ET. The Chris Weidman vs. Lyoto Machida fight was one of the best of the year, and cemented Weidman as a legit champion to those who…

By Brian Hoops  1941 – Lee Wyckoff defeated Orville Brown in Kansas City, Kansas to winthe Midwest Wrestling Association World Heavyweight Title. 1952 – Golden Hawk and Johnny Kostas defeated Henry Harrell and Rex Mobleyfor the Mid-America NWA Southern Tag Team Title in Chattanooga, Tennessee. 1959 – Gene Kiniski defeated Whipper Billy Watson for the Toronto NWABritish…

One of the world’s most prestigious literary prizes has been dragged into a diplomatic spat between China and Taiwan after it caved in to pressure from Beijing to change the nationality of a Taiwanese nominee on its website. The Man Booker International Prize said on Friday that it had changed the nationality of Professor Wu…

Alexander Yakovenko, Russia’s ambassador to London, laid out Moscow’s position on the Salisbury nerve agent attack on Thursday. Needless to say, it is the diametric opposite of the British government’s account.  So what to believe? To help navigate the cacophony of claim and counter claim surrounding the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal,  we look at Mr Yakovenko’s…